Sentences with phrase «police and prosecutors claim»
Most likely this is a long time bargaining process, where supporters of the reform argue in favor based on theoretical backgrounds and past record of abuses, while police and prosecutors claim removing it made law enforcement difficult.
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The newspaper reported on Tuesday that local prosecutors decided not to pursue charges against Cuban seven years ago after a woman told Portland police that Cuban sexually assaulted her in a nightclub, claiming that he reached into her pants and penetrated her vagina with a finger without her permission while they posed for a photograph.
But prosecutors in the French city rubbished the claims this week, saying the police classified the event as an accident and made no reference to sabotage of the car.
His claims were another black eye for the NYPD in the ongoing corruption probe focusing on high - ranking police officials and Brooklyn businessmen Jona Rechnitz and Jeremy Reichberg, who prosecutors say provided gifts in exchange for favors.
The half - dozen cases that are now part of the investigation, which began in 2013 and has already claimed a county police chief, were all handled by Mr. Spota's top anticorruption prosecutor, Christopher McPartland.
Many readers will recognize this as a variation on the still controversial 1987 Tawana Brawley case, in which a New York State teen found in a similar condition claimed to have been raped and abused by white men, including a police officer and prosecutor.